Whether or not you have good consumer protection has a big effect on safety and soundness of the banking community, especially smaller banks.

I don't think the American people want unilateral government control over the entire health-care system.

I don't rule out anything in my future.

Actually, I have been very supportive of a very robust stimulus package from day one. I think this economy has to have a major stimulus initiative because the only group with liquidity is the federal government.

Social Security was always supposed to be basically, in theory, an insurance program where you pay in and then you get out.

Most senators are just going to work and trying to do a job.

Most people get their politics, obviously, from TV shows about senators or movies about them or... all the day-to-day press and the talk shows.